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SETH H. BEVINS AND DANIEL W. BENJAMIN, OF JERSEY CITY, N. J. I

IMPROVEMENT IN MEAT-HOLDERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,001, dated May 19, 1874; application filed March 17, 1874.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, SETE H. BEvINs and DANIEL W. BENJAMIN, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Butchers,7 Meat-Holders, of which the following is a specification:

Beefsteaks are often too thick, and require to be subdivided. To do this is very diflicult, as one portion is liable to be cut much thicker than the other in consequence of the lack of a suitable holder, .and in cutting' steaks, especially in warm weather, the'ineat is unsupported, and the steak cannot be separated of a uniform thickness.

Uur invention is to facilitate the operation of the butcher in cutting oft' slices of meat for steaks, Sto., and supporting the bone while being sawed.

We make use of two clamping-faces, one of which is movable by a screw or lever below the bed, and said faces are above the bed, so that when the piece ot' meat is laid upon the bed, and pressed by the faces at its sides, it is held suiiiciently to keep the parts in position while being cut or sawed; and the surface of the metal bed carrying the parts is provided with a wooden guard, that serves to prevent injury to the saw or knife by the metal.

In the drawing, Figure 1 meat-holder, and Fig. 2 is at the line m a'.

The bed c is preferably of metal, with a is a plan of the a vertical section dovetailcd recess in its upper surface, into which the wooden guard bis driven, and upon this bed a is the clamping face e, sustained by the bracketpiecesf; and the moving face gis provided with guide and supporting-brackets It, and it is nloved by the screw k, that is beA low the bed, and provided with a hand-iwheel, Z, at the end. This screw acts upon a nut that projects down from the face g through a slot in the bed. A lever might be employed in-Y stead of the screw. The Hanges a at the edges of the faces e and g serve to sustain the bone of the meat while being sawed.

It willnow be understood that the steak or piece of meat to be subdivided is placed bctween the faces e g, and they are pressed lightly upon the same. The meat is then cut,

and the bone, if any, rests against the Hanges n while being sawed.

We claim as our invention- The meat holder made of the vertical clamping-faces above and at right angles to the supporting bed or block, with projections for supporting the bone while being sawed, and mechanism for moving one of the clamps, substantially as set forth.

Signed by us this .13th day of March, A. D. 1874.

GEO. T. PINcKNnY, Oni/1s. H. SMITH. 

